My New Aquarium

[griffinkid]

Hi! Just started a new fish tank for fishes so that they wont bother my shrimplets and make a meal out of it... Do add in your comments on how to make it a better tank!

Substrate: GEX Soil for plants
Flora: Semisphere Coconut husk with spiky moss tied on
2 pieces of driftwood
1 piece of borneowild minerock
1 windelov
1 java ferns

Fauna: 3 Horned Nerites
2 pairs of Aphyosemion Australe Orange
a trio of pencilfish

Temp: ~29deg Celsius

Some pictures to share!

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Tank Layout

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My clean up crew- a trio of Horned Nerites

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Male Orange Australe

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Female Orange Australe

Just wondering if you guys have any comments on how to improve the scaping or perhaps anymore fauna i should add.

Im thinking of adding a pair of panda cories to spice up the activity at the bottom... But im afraid the Australes will get nasty and start to nip the cories. In fact i heard panda cories require low temperature like 22 degrees. Doubt they can survive... Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance! and Thanks for viewing!

[octoper]

nice looking tank

[edw7636]

Panda cory is ok for me. Has them for over 2 months now. My temp is round 27 to 29. Room temperature.

As long your substrate is soft, they will be fine. Mine eat hikari sinking pallets, no other stuff haha.

[polyho]

Can I ask the experts if the water filter above produce enough air for the fishes as the rain bar is below the water level? I am newbie too.
Tks

[backspace]

As long as there is surface agitation, there should be oxygen exchange.
The tank does not look over crowed. Just my humble opinions.

To griffinkid, Nice scape by the way.